Scanlan Peak

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Mount Menzies
height 1670  m
location Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Prince Charles Mountains
Coordinates 71 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  S , 65 ° 23 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 71 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  S , 65 ° 23 ′ 0 ″  E
Scanlan Peak (Antarctica)
Scanlan Peak

The Scanlan Peak is a 1,670  m high mountain in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the Prince Charles Mountains, it is the southernmost of a group of three mountains that rise around 8 km southeast of the Husky Massif .

It was used for mapping aerial photographs taken by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1960. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named him after Anthony Michael Scanlan, a cook at Davis Station in 1961.

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